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Robert H & Jane Bassett Spilman Foundation at a glance

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Robert H & Jane Bassett Spilman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$79kHealth$42kEducation$38kArts & Culture$27kCommunity Improvement$25kHuman Services$21kHousing & Shelter$13kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$486k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$4,000
GOOCHLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$3,500
GOOCHLAND CARES$3,500
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL$2,000
USSGA MEMORIAL FUND$2,000
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$2,000
LINVILLE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FD$1,500
DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION$500
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$500
LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CITY OF HOPE: $10k → 14%USSGA MEMORIAL FUND: $3k → 9%THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $3k → 13%MFHA HUNT STAFF BENEFIT & DEV: $2k → 4%SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $25k → 5%GOOCHLAND CARES: $7k → 6%HOLLIS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $2k → 11%AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 15%CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 17%CITY OF HOPE: $10k → 14%USSGA MEMORIAL FUND: $2k → 9%SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%GOOCHLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4k → 6%CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 17%ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL: $3k → 22%CITY OF HOPE: $5k → 14%USSGA MEMORIAL FUND: $2k → 9%LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $3k → 5%GOOCHLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4k → 6%CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 17%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND CULTURE: $3k → 22%LINVILLE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FD: $3k → 15%SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $3k → 5%GOOCHLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4k → 6%CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 17%ST JAMES EPISCOPAL: $5k → 22%LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 15%GOOCHLAND CARES: $4k → 6%REWORK RICHMOND: $2k → 9%CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $4k → 17%ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 22%LINVILLE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FD: $2k → 15%GOOCHLAND CARES: $4k → 6%LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN: $3k → 9%CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 17%ST JAMES EPISCOPAL: $4k → 22%LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 15%GOOCHLAND CARES: $4k → 6%ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25k → 9%ST JAMES EPISCOPAL: $4k → 22%GOOCHLAND CARES: $3k → 6%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3k → 22%HENRY COUNTY FURNITURE MUSEUM INC: $5k → 17%BASSETT HISTORICAL CENTER: $3k → 17%ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 6%ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$199k · 18 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
27

Total granted

$199k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+49%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • G
    GoochlandCares
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +42%
  • LF
    LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +57%
  • UM
    USSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ELI BANANA FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • SJ
    ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • HC
    Henry County Furniture Museum Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture
2
Virginia Sheriffs' Association Inc

Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.

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3
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
4
Virginia Capital Trail Foundation

The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.

Recreation & Sports
5
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
6
Virginia Forestry Association

Vfa promotes stewardship and wise use of the commonwealth's forest resources for the economic and environmental benefits of all virginians.

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7
Virginia Agribusiness Council

Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.

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8
Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

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9
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
10
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
11
The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated

Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.

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12
Vmi Alumni Association

The purpose of the VMI Alumni Association is to organize the alumni of VMI into one general body.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is Henry County Furniture Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
23/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25,500 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHCITY OF HOPE: $25,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHST JAMES EPISCOPAL: $15,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPALGOOCHLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,500 · OtherGOOCHLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITYST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherLINVILLE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FD: $6,000 · Other+17 more: $38,250 · Other+17 moreSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $35,500 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDA…GoochlandCares: $20,000 · HealthGoochlandCares+1 more: $250 · HealthLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · EducationLINVILLE F…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3,500 · EducationWOODBERRY …UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $3,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY…HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $3,000 · EducationHOLLINS UN…VIRGINIA LITERACY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHenry County Furniture Museum Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC: $6,500 · EmploymentReWork Richmond Inc: $2,000 · EmploymentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · EnvironmentLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsMFHA Foundation: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$152,250Health$55,750Education$26,000Arts & Culture$18,500Employment$8,500Environment$8,000Recreation & Sports$5,500Youth Development$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $35,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGoochlandCares: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHenry County Furniture Museum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReWork Richmond Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA LITERACY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Piedmont Arts Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMFHA Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
  • Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds USSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Henry County Furniture Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ReWork Richmond Inc ↗
  • Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Piedmont Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Richard S Reynolds Fo…The Mary Morton Parso…Wilbur Moreland Haven…Herndon FoundationDominion Energy Chari…The Garrett FoundationThe William G Reynold…The Randolph and Susa…Marie G Dennett Found…Virginia Sargeant Rey…The William H - John …
The Community Foundation IncVA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Garrett Foundation · The William G Reynolds Jr Charitable Foundation · The Randolph and Susan Reynolds Foundation · Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert H & Jane Bassett Spilman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert H & Jane Bassett Spilman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Robert H & Jane Bassett Spilman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert H & Jane Bassett Spilman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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